This list is sourced from the Uptake Twitter list which can be found at http://www.uptake.com/blog/blogging/the-t-list-does-twitter-join-the-travel-twitterati-beta_239.html.  I wanted to separate it out so that I could generate a TweepML list that would make it easy for you to follow them. UPDATE: To prevent having to maintain two lists, one static and one on the TweepML site, I have decided to remove the list from the post and link directly to...

For research purposes I have been trying to gather together lists of travel related companies that are using Twitter.  I am slowly but surely putting together some for my own, but hopefully also your, use.  Here is my first list of companies starting with airlines.  If you know of any ideas, please add them to the comments and I will regenerate the TweepML file for this group, in order to make following that much simpler for everyone. You can...

Well, last year I suggested that the top 5 trends for 2008 would be: Increase in mobile travel. Niche travel social networks would sprout. The big three would not go anywhere (in hindsight, not really a prediction). Start of Intelligent Agents (symantic search) Long tail would shift I would argue that all of these happened in 2008 although perhaps not to the degree that I would have expected.  My predictions for 2009 are based somewhat on the...

I just received my beta invitation this morning for Google’s Friend Connect, social network widget platform.  I have been waiting for this for a while, and here is why: 1. Friend Connect allows website owners to drop the social widgets into websites that are not socially aware.  By this I mean that you can add social networking to your blog or even to your corporate site. 2. The user management is handled by Google and uses Yahoo, Open...

It’s amazing to me how much the T-List has grown since it was launched by Mathieu Ouellet back in March of 2007.  It has been about a year and half now and the most recent list was posted by Happy Hotelier in his “Happy Halloween: Happy Hotelier’s 300 T-List Travel Related Blogs Ranked according to Technorati“.  Here is a recap of how much the Travel Blogger community has grown over the last year: March 2007 –...